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IN A CONNING TOWER, The Self-Respecting Blue Jacket-A Gorinan Atheist The Sailors Telephine What the Naval Guns meant to Ladysmith-Tho | Salt of the Earth.

LADYSMITH, December 6th. There goes that stinker on Gun Hill," said the captain. "No, don't get up: have some draught beer.

I did have some draught beer. "Wait and see if he fires again. If he does "we'll go up into the cooning-tower, and have both guns in action toge

Boom! The captain picked up his stick. "Come on," he said.

We got up out of the rocking chairs, and went past the swinging meat-sufe, under the bly canvas of the ward-room, with its table. "Trust the sailor 10 piled with stuff to read.

make himself at home. As we passed through the camp the bluejackets rose to a man and lined up trimly on either side. Trust the sailor to keep to his self-respect, even in five weeks' beleaguered Ladysmith.

came on

Up a knee-loosening ladder of rock, and we to the green hill-top, where they first had their camp. Among the orderly trenches, the sites of the departed tents, were rougher Irregular blotches or holes-footprints of shell. "That gunner," said the captain waving his stick at Surprise Hill," is a Gerninn." Nobody but a German atheist would have fired on us at breakfast, lunch and dinner the same Sunday. It got too hot when he put one ten yards from the cook. Anybody else we could have spared; then we had to go."

We come to what looks like a sandbag re doubt, but in the eyes of heaven is a conning. tower. On either side, from behind a sandbag epaulement, a 12-pounder and a Maxim thrust forth rigilant eyes. The sandbag plating of the conning-tower was six feet thick and shoul afer-high; the rivets were red earth, luose but binding on the parapets sprouted tufts of grass unabashed and rejoicing in the summer wea ther. Against the parapet leaned a couple of men with the clean-cut, clean-shaven jaw and chin of the naval officer, and half-a-dozen hearded blue jackets. They stared hard out of sun-puckered eyes over the billows of kopje and veldt.

Every outline was cut in adamant. The Helpmakaar Ridge, with its little black as a crawl on their bill, was crushed sat

heneath us.

A couple of vedettes racing over the pale green plain noftard looked as if we could jump on their heads. We could have tossed a biscuit over to Lombard's Kop. The great yellow emplacement of their fourth big piece on Gun Hill stood up like a Spithead Fort. Through the big telescope that Awings on its pivat in the centre of the tower you could see that the Boers were loafing round it dressed in dirty mustard-colour.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900.

"All right, sir" said the child serenely, we'll knock him out."

He hasn't knocked him nuf yet, but he is going in next set, which in a siege is the next best thing.

In the meantime he has find his gun's name, "Lady Ellen." neatly carved on a stone and

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up on his emplacement Another gunpit bears the golden legend Princess Victoria Battery," on a board elegant beyond the dreams of suburban preparatory schools, A regiment would have had no point or goldleaf; the sailors always have everything, They carry their home with them, self-subsisting, self-relying. Even as the constant bluejacket says, "Right Gun Hill-up, sir," there floats froin below fing-ting, ting-ting, ting.........ctg

Five bells

The rack-rendering double bang floats over you unheard the hot iron bills swim away.

Five bells and you are on deck swishing through cool blue water among white-clad indies in long chairs, going home."

O Lord, how long?

But the sailors have not seen home for two years, which is two less than their usual spell. This is their holiday.

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"Of course, we enjoy it," they say, almost apologising for saying so ;. we sa seldom get a chance.

The Royal Navy is the salt of the sea and the salt of the earth also. From the late G. From the late G. W. Sleevens in "From Capetown to Ladysmith.

A SHANGHAI BOY FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

"I were going to have a war to-morrow there's one man I wouldn't have in it, and that's Buller"

"And why not?"

"Oh, Buller's not half as nice as Roberts, or French, or Rhodes. He'd never take off his hat to the young ladies of the Company, and. the others always did

dressing-rooms of the theatre and told us we would have to get out at once,--that we bad not five minutes to spare. Everybody then began to run about and collect the wardrobes and scenery, and the girls all screamed, and I tried to drag my box and Eva Gidley's box down stairs, but fell over thein and rolled from the

top in the bottom of the stairway. We all managed to get away safely, but the scenery and things had to be left behind while we ran to the railway station. Enormous crowds of people were trying to get away and we had to choose between third-class carriages and cattle trucks. We took the third-class carriages and set out for Cape Town. We had a most exciting journey and our train was the last that crossed the Modder River bridge before it was blown up. The Boers waited until we had passed and when we had got some distance away we heard the crash of the explosion. Then the girls began to scream again, and the guard came along and told us we could have no lights in the train. At De Aar the Boers stopped us and searched us and we were obliged to wait three weeks before they would let us proceed. They were very friendly with the boys and girls everywhere, and used to give us sweets and ask us to sing for them. They always speak in a queer way through their noses, and are just as funny people as the Kairs, From De Aar we went to Colesburg, where we were agafn stopped, the Boers taking all the trucks away from the train to carry their ammunition. Finally we got to Cape Town all right, but with hardly any clothes. In fact a good many of the children were in rags, so we got up performances to get money to buy what we wanted. At last Mr. Pollard broke up the Company and sent us all home. We were very sorry to part from one another because wa had always been very good friends. I was sent home first-class, transhipping, first at Calcutta and then at Hongkong, where I got on board the Coromandel and came up to Shanghai.

I saw everything that was to be seen in South Africa. At Cape Town I saw all the wounded soldiers coming down from the front, and at Pretoria I saw President Kruger, who is not a bad old chap at all. He was introduced to us and gave us all chocolate at the Theatre in boxes with a picture of himself on the lid. He asked us all out to his place to tea and to show his wife, but when we got there they had no- thing for us to drink but strong coffer. Mrs. Chester wouldn't let us have it, so we had to come away without anything. Cecil Rhodes was also very kind to us at Kimberley and Lord Roberts was just splenda. In Pretoria they are putting up a grand marble statue to Kenger, but the head is not on it yet and some of the boys, like Af Goulding and Willie Stewart, think that in the end Queen Victoria's head will be put on instead.-C. Garelle.

The admirer of "the others" spoke with authority for, although he cannot boast of more than fourteen years, the last two of these have been spent in South Africa, about which he has much that is interesting to relate, especially Forward we looked down on the one 47: with regard to the great events which have aft we looked up to the other. On bow and been taking place there since October. The beam and quarter we looked out tothe enemy's

young gentleman is Master jeha Vincent Mur fleet. Deserted Pepworth's was on the purphy, son of an old and much respected servant bow, Gun Hill under Lombard's Kop, on the of the Municipal Council, Mr. P. V. Murphy starboard, Bulwan abeam, Middle Hill astern, of the Tax Department. It will be remembered by many of our readers that when Pollard's Suprise Hill on the part-quarter.

Liliputian Operatic Company was here in the spring of 1897, young Murphy joined the com- bination and after a week or two of training, appeared with much success in the Lyceum in the character of Gebo in Les Cloches. His fitness for a theatrical life was so immediately apparent that great things were predicted for THE KOREAN GENTLEMAN.. him by the local critics, predictions which

The cal and composure that environs a would seem to have been fairly well realised in his career ever since in due season the Korean gentleman, says the Rev. J. S. Gile, is Liliputians closed their engagement in one of the mysteries of the Orient, Embarrassed Shanghai, and set out on an extended tour, he may be by a thousand debts, and threatened whole of which Master by a hungry wolf through every chink in his throughout the Johnny has been one of the Company's leading mud cabin, yet the placidity of his life continues Hongkong, Singapore, Burma, anruffled. He is master of a composure that members. India and Mauritius were visited in turn by the forms the groundwork of other characteristics. youthful mummers, and finally their destiny led From Confucius he has learned to mortify them to South Africa, where they continued every natural impulse, and to move as though playing in various regions until the War broke he acted his part on a stage, where a single out and compelled Mr. Pollard to dissolvo his misdirected smile or thoughtless measure would Company under rather exciting circumstances, upset the greatest play on record. His about which Johnny has a great deal that is choicest word is yei meaning "proper form." interesting to say. He is an exceedingly bright, If he only keeps ye, he may offend against well-grown and engaging lad, full of enthusiasm every command in the decalogue, and still he for his profession, and brimming over a superior man-in fact, may be perfectly with reminiscences of Kimberley, Maleking, holy. If he breaks pri, he is covered with Pretoria and all the other places which confusion, and counts himself the vilest of have become so famous during the past few the vile. Vei, of couse, is Confucianism, if months. As might only be expected from a you speak a word in disparagement of yes, the boy who has passed through such exciting gentleman is frantic, forgetting res altogether vicissitudes, on being asked by a repre- for the moment in his effort at violence. sentative of this paper, if he would like to Anything that interferes with the rigid ful. relate a few of his experiences for publicationsfillment of yes is of course to be avoided, for he immediately began to disburden himself of which reason no gentlenian indulges in manual stories of the War, and his views of the leaders labor, or in fact, in labor of any kind. His life in the struggle, their tactics and capabilities, at consists in one supreme command of coolie a rate that would have filled the columns of service, while the coolie responds to every half-a-dozen papers in as many minutes, order. The lighting of his pipe, or the rubbing Starting out with his estimate of General Buller of ink on the inkstones, must be done for him. above recorded, he proceeded to state what he Down to the simplest requirement of life he thought of the other Generals, Boer and British does nothing, as his hands become soft, and and their dealing with the Liliputian Company his finger nails grow long From constant somewhat in the following terms -

sitting his bones seem to disintegrate, and he becomes almost a molluse before he passes middle life.

Lefttand Gun Hill fired, sir," said a blue jacket, with his eyes glued to binoculars. "At the balloon"-and presently we heard the weary pinions of the shell, and saw the little puff of white below.

"Ring up Mr. Halsey," said the Captain, Then I was aware of a sort of tarpaulin cuphoard under the breastwork, of creeping trails of wire on the ground, and of a couple of

sappers.

The corporal turned down his page of Harmsworth's Magazine laid it on the parapet,

and dived under the tarpaulin.

Ting-a-ling-a-ling buzzed the telephone bell. The gaunt up towering mountains, the long, smooth, deadly guns-and the telephone bell The mountains and the guns went out, and there floated in that roaring office of the Daily Mail instead, and the warm, rustling vestibule of the playhouse on a December night. This is the way we make war now; only for the instant it was half joke and half home-sickness. Where were we? What were we doing.

Right-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," came the even voice of the bluejacket. "At the balloon." "Captain wants to speak to you, sir," came the voice of thesapper from underthe tarpaulin, Whistle and raftle and pop went the shell in the valley below.

"Give him a round both guns together," said the Captain to the telephone.

“Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said the blue- jacket to the captain,

Nobody cared about left-hand Gun-fill, he was only a 4.7 howitzer; every glass was clamp ed on the big yellow emplacement.

"Right-hand Gun Hill is up, sin Bang, coughs the forward gun below.us, bang, coughs the after-gan overhead. Every glass clamped on the emplacement.

"What a time they take sighs a lieutenant then a leaping cloud a little in front and to

the right.

man, who

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Damo 1" sighs a peach-checked midship "Oh, good shot!" For the second has landed just over and behind the epaulement.

"Has it hit the gun?" "No such luck," says the captain; he was down again five seconds after we fired.

And the men had all gone to earth, of course. Ting-a-ling-a-ling! Down dives the sapper, and presently his face reappears, will "Headquarters to speak to you, Sir." What the captain said to Head quarters is not to be repeated by the profane the captain knows his mind, and speaks it. As soon as that was over, ting-a-ling again.

"Mr. Halsey wants to know if he may fire again, sir."

le may have one more," for shell is still being saved for Christmas.

It was all quite unimportant and probably quite ineffective. At first it staggers you to think that mountain-shaking bang can have no result; but after a little experience and thought you see it would be a miracle if it had. The emplacement is a small mountain in itself the men have run out into holes, Once in a thousand shots you might hit the actual gun and destroy it but shell is being saved for If the natives and deserters are not lying and the sailors really hit Pepworth's Long Tom, then that gunner may life on his exploit for, the rest of his life.

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him with what went on in the days of King affairs, which will not be without interest to Sun- contemporary of Noah-with as much | impartial observers. Probably not a per cent. assurance as we would talk of the events of of the Boers have ever been at sea before, and yesterday. The new arrival in the Land of it is certain that they will all be extremely sea. | Morning Calm begins to think what a marvel sick.

The exact date of Napoleon's landing was of information this man is, and what a fund of accurate knowledge he has acquired-and he October 16th, 1815, and he spent

heathen, too. It is only when you put his statements to the test that you and he is astray in everything. But the rarest accident he may be right, but it is the exception. He has no intention of deceiving you. The defect lies in the fact that there is something radically wrong with his manner of reasoning and of putting two and two together.

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He has a profound contempt for woman, speaking of her generally as keckip or female. He takes for his wife the one his father bar- gains for, raising no question as to her looks, health, or avoirdupois. She is a subject alto- gether beneath the consideration of a member of the male sex, with its massive understanding. She is relegated to the inclosure and teads a secluded life. He refers to her as kosik, (what- you may call her), or keni (she) and never loses an opportunity of showing how little is the place she occupies in his extensive opperations. If the truth were told, however, we would know that the little woman, within that enclosure is by no means the cypher he pretends her to be, but that she is really male and skipper of the entire institution, and that no man was ever more thoroughly under petticoat government than this same Korean gentleman.

His prime object in life is to have a son who will sacrifice to his shades when he is dead, and gone. The boy is expected to obey his father implicitly. If he but develops that trait, he may grow up to be quite as useless, or more so, than his sire, and yet be a model man. If no son is burn to him, he adopts a newphew or near relative is the best substitute under the circumstances. But the stranger never while takes the place of the real son, who is regarded in this life as his strong right arm, and in the life to come as his eternal satisfaction.

but no looseness.; and few conditions exist

BIS FIRST NIGHT ON SHORE

at the little house nestling at the foot of the hills almost facing the sen On the next day

he climbed the ladder and took possession of Longwood, where fus six weary monotonous years he dragged out a like which he himself compared to that of a vegetable rather than that

of a man.

The Goremor of the island at that time was Sir Hudson Lowe, and the ex-Dictator called him his gaoler, and spoke anything but kindly of hins in his memous. The air of St. Helena cannot have been conducive 10 clear vision or unimpaired recollection on the part of the great man, for, in his writings, which are by way of memoirs of men and things, he deliberately distorts history in a would know must have been patent to all these manner which one would have thought he

who read them.

Still, the writing of these studies in exile. accupied the illustrious prisoner for a long while, and filled up all the time he could spare from quarrelling with Sir Hudson Lowe and others. is doctor, and the occasional visitors to the island, had strange and not altogether edifying tales to tell of the undignified per- weiseness which Napoleon assumed while a prisoner.

From the date of his death, May 5, 1821, until 1840 his remains were buried in St. Helena. During the latter year they were removed to France and deposited, as every onc knows, in the Hotel des Invalides.

Such, in brief, is the story of St. Helena and its most celebrated inhabitant. When General Cronje is deported thither, it will either he the greatest honour ever conferred upon that rather undistinguished person, or it will be the greates! insult offered to the great Napoleon. Perbaps it will be both-idvocate of India,

LORD KITCHENER AT SCHOOL.

A marked characteristic of a Korean gen. tleman's home is its entire respectability. There is frankness and freedom of speech, that would offend in the hest ordered Western there are a number of concubines, propriety Ever since Shakespeare wrote that the boy household. Strange to say, in a home where and good order obtain: I once made a journey is father to the man, it has been the fortune or to Japan with a strict and devout Korean Connisfortune of great men to have their carly days fucianist, Mr. Cheung. He had learned much adorned with wondrous stories of their pre-

cuciousness. Then there are exceptions to prove. of Christ and Christianity, and while he assent- ed to, and rejoiced in, whatever of it agreed the rule that men of mark have often given no with his ancient faith, he remained a Con. evidence in their boyhood of their ability lying fucianist as firm an ever. We took ship in one dormant is amply exemplified by the Duke of of the ports of Korea and started for Japan. Wellington. He was a dull average boy, and one out of whose early years the inde. He had heard of the adoption of Western life and customs in the Sunrise Kingdom, and was fatigable anecdote writer is able to gather desirous of seeing something of the benefits is nothing, except it be the fable of his having would confer upon race. The first thing he thrashed the youthful Napoleon Bonaparte, saw was the depravity of the women-selling As a boy Lord Kitchener was also of the themselves," said he, " before the eyes of on average, and what is more surprising suli, leckers and for copper mormed him in the

100. A year's when his present tireless activity is taken into residence in the country

account, was inclined to be lazy. His father, belief that what he had seen was not the ex- Colonel Kitchener who died within the last ten ception but a national trait. "When women years, was a strict disciplinarian of a most are so depraved the men must be equally so. autocratic temperament. While his son They know nothing of Confucius, no fear of Herbert was at public school working for a God before their eyes. Westem civilization certain examination, it was reported to the the colonel that he was idling. This angered merely tends to make their depravity more exceedingly depraved.' He lived as in a kind him, and lie told the future conqueror of the

Mahdi that unless he succeeded in passing hist of nightmare-horrorstricken by nudity and obscenity such as he had never dreamed of in examination he would take him away and send his isolated kingdom. He saw two drunken to walk two-und-two in-a school, English and American sailors and the so-called adding the further threat that if he failed then respectables, whose life was but a whirl of he would apprentice him to a hatter. In pleasure seeking. "Your Christ," said he, "has spite of these threats the embryo General fail- but a meager hold upon you after all." He ed. His father kept his word, and for some had put off his dress and laid aside his topknot, time Herbert Kitchener might have been seen in the "crocodile" of a certain wonby school- but his heart remained still faithful to the

he mistress. But when he again went in for his garments of his ancient faith. The more saw of life abroad the more he sighed for his examination he passed. If he had not there straw roof and inud lu, where modesty and is little doubt that for a short time at any rate virtue bad honor still and where life was lived he might have been employed in the hat trade. with some degree of regard for the teachings of For Colonel Kitchener was a severe man of his the ancient sages.

word, and a magtinet of the old school, of which paternal characteristics Lord Kitchener of Khartoum has a large share. Hatter's Gaselle

So he passed from us, one of the last and most unique remains of a civilization that has lived its day. His composure, his mastery of self, his moderation, his kindliness, his scholar. ly attainments, his dignity, his absolute good- for-nothingness or better, unfitness for the world he lived in,-all combine to make a mystery of humanity that you cannot but feel kind toward and deeply interested in.-S. D.

Prest.

CRONJE'S NEW HOME.

NAPOLEON'S SUCCESSOK ON THE LITTLE

-ISLAND NEARLY 1,000 MILES FROM ANYWHERE.

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MAY MAN AND WOMAN BE FRIENDS?

Platonic friendship is the subject of a sym- posium in the March number of the Lady's Realm. Lady Violet Beauchamp strongly be lieves in the possibility and the reality of this "bond of mutual sympathetic interest " as good F. and necessary for man and for woman. Frankfort Moore denounces it in crisp and racy. sentences it is the penalty paid in age for the procrastination of youth. It is the eggshell that is treasured by a man when some one else the omelette." "It is Apollo in Since the opening of the Suez Canal, St.

It is offering a woman a loaf of Helens, that absurd little island in the Atlantic, pyjamas,

bread when she is dying of thirst. It is offer- 140 miles from Africa, and 1800 from America, has had absolutely no luck at all. Its populaing a man a cup of water when he is dying of tion and its trade have both declined, the farmer of hunger." "It is the shortest way to the from 6,500 to 5,000 and the latter from £15,000 "ideal friedship" equally possible between man Divorce Court," Miss Sybil Drummond thinks

True, during the past few weeks St. Helena has been put into telegraphic communicate with London and Capetown, by means of the recent complation of the new West Coast cable. This is, after all; only a mitigated boon, and the only folks likely to profit thereby for some time to come are Mr. Cronje and family, St. Helena is a great place for caves and hills. Both abound, particularly the latter. Geologically speaking, the island is largely, if not wholly, volcanic, and a lot of extinct craters are apparent. Some of the pinnacles, have queer names, such as Lot's Wife, the Man and Horse, the Asses Ears, Holdfast Tom, Old Joan Point, Stone Top, etc.

The only inhabited place is Jamestown, which has a population of about 2,500. It lies in a deep valley surrounded by very high bilis. it is not a

We arrived in Delgoa Bay from Mauritius in February, 1898, played some time to the Portuguese there and then went to Algoa Bay. Not all the gentry, by any means, are From there we went to Durban, Pietermaritz scholars, though they ought to be, if they came burg, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Kimberley, up to the standard of Confucian requirement. Queenstown, Grahamstown, East London and Those who have attained to this are marked Port Elizabeth, drawing big houses at all these and honored men; they are all but worshipped places and having a splendid time. We had to by the mass of the people, and are given the work hard, of course, and learn a great many freedom of every city in the kingdom; are pieces, and most of the time we were not study. admitted its distinguished guess they the ing new parts we had to be doing our lessons. presence of the highest, free of pass. Chinese But in spite of all this we had plenty of amuse- characters seem to have for these few a con. ment, and everybody was very kind to us. People suming fascination. Not so much the thought were constantly asking us out everywhere and conveyed, as the character itself seems

to $10,000. if they were nice people Mr. Pollard always the object of veneration. From them he

As a port of call it used to flourish amaz- let us go, so that we all nade very many friends, builds (chite) forms of expression and go: splendid presents and altogether enjoyed verses, as A child builds an enchantedingly in the days of the old East India route, ourselves very much. From Port Elizabeth castle from blocks of different sizes; and as round by the Cape of Good Hope; but now we went down to Cape Town, where we played there is no limit to the variations and com- A-days, save for an occasional tramp steamer three months, and then went up country again binations possible, so there is no limit to the and the periodical mail boats, there is prac to all the places we had been in on the way charm they possess. Two scholars can find tically no development at all connected with down from Delgoa Bay. We were in Johnnes sufficient to interest them for a single day in a its shipping trade. burg when the War broke out, playing "The single character, and as there are in use some fielle of New York at the Standard Theatre. 20,000 characters, they have a fund of interest

to draw on that will last for half a century. The people in the Company then, were, Mr. Willie Pollard, Mr. Ernie Pollard, Mr. Arther

The imp of the Korean gentleman mystery. I have figured Pollard, Mr. Aharlie Pollard, Mr. Harry Hall, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Pollard, Mrs: Chester and Miss. for years on the question as to how an idle man, May Pollard, who had come out to teach

with nothing left to-day, shall outlive to-morrow; "The Belle" These were all the grown-up but he lives, drosses just as well, and misses people, and the Liliputians were, Annie Moore. none of his meale. He will tell you frankly that Annie Pollard, Elsie. Norwood, Nettie and the last of his hopes for a livelihood has perish. Neille Findlay, Irene Goulding, Alice Gibert, ed, he is financially a total wreck, and bis Lily Stewan, Emma Pendleton, Violet Marden, present conditions is a clinging to the rocks, Sadie Musgrove, Jessie Ford, Moira Mansuch, where he is in momentary peril of the devouring Minnie and May Topping, Winnie Lea, Eva element. You are exercised deeply on his be Gidley, Alice Hurnetta, Marie Sheddon, Ruby half; much more deeply, you learn later, than Faller, May.Chester, Dolly Pollard, Alf. Goul. he himself is. Months pass, and he is still in ding, Willie Stewart, Bertie Clifton, Willie the same condition-3 condition in extremis, Cheater, Howie Sheddon, Bennía Musgrove no better, no worse. By way of encourage. and myself. For many weeks before the Warment I have said: "You have managed to eat we could see the Boers riding about the town and live for a month or more on nothing(junt every day with their guns and cannons, but there continue on in the same manner, and you will was no great excitement. Mr. Pollard thought do very well," "Eat and live," says he, "of it best for us to leave Jobannesburg, so we course; you would not expect me to lie down wont to Pretoria, the Standard Theatre, in and die, would you?" And he leaves in disgust, which we had been playing, being turned feeling that the delienie points of an Oriental into a hospital. We had only been three days question can never penetrate the shell which at Fretoria when the Boers gave us notice to quit, and although we had intended to stay The fact that tradesmen and business people three weeks we had to get out and go to are regarded as low, encourages the Korean Kimberley. In Kimberley we found another gentleman to neglect thought and training on Company playing, so we had to wait for the

this line. He is a veritable child in business, Theatre, and while we were waiting the principal Many a foreigner trusts his affairs to his native members of our Company,, myself included, teacher, and wonders why they should turn out went up to Bulowayo and gays a little show so unsatisfactorily in the hands of a native. If there. While playing at Bulowayo we heard business must be transacted, an honest "boy" there was severe fighting at Kimberley and Mr. will quite outdo, in executive skill the best and Pollard thought it best for us to get down to most honest scholar, Cape Town as soon as possible. So we set out and went on all right at first, but as we were drawing near to Kimberley we were chased by a Boer armoured trio. The Boers saw The other day they sent a ta-pounder up to were carrying ammunition, and they fired three Caesar's Camp under a boy who, if he were not shell at us, but our train was not hit. We got commanding big men round a big gun in a big into Kimberley all right and were just making war might with Jack be in the fiftir fors,ready to play The likado" when we heard a "There's a 94-pounder up there," said a high lot of whistles blowing and shouting in the officer, who might first have been his grand streets and people running about. Then shots father

were fired and Mr. Pollard rushed Into the

Christmas.

"We trust we've killed a few men," says the capt. in cheerily "but we can't hope for much marc."

encases the barbarian's brain,

PATICULARLY HEALTHY PLACE,

Ladder Hill is where Government Houre is situated. It is so called because of the almost precipitous ladder-like wooden stairs by which

traclivity of 6dd felt has to be scaled..

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"ALCINDUS,"

THE Company's Steamship

Captain Pulferd, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 1th May,

For Freight, apply to "

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, 9th April, 1960.

[465b

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYÀ, THE Steamship

"MARIE JEBSEN," will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 15th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

[60gb Hongkong, 11th May, 1900.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,

STEAM FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, HIOGO AND YOKOHAMA. THE Imperial German Mail Steamship

-"SACHSEN,"

of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, Captain G. Danneniann, due here with the out- ward German Mail about TUESDAY, the 15th instant, will leave for the above places about 24 hours after arrival,

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. For further Particulars, apply to

MELCHERS & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 12th May, 1900.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

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FOR LIVERPOOL (DIRECT), VIA SUEZ CAÑAL, Taking Cargo at London Rates,

"100MENEUS,"

THE Company's Steamship Captain Riley, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 24th May,

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE-

Agents. Hongkong, 25th April, 1ção.

(538b

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL: THE Company's Steamship

"PATROCLUS,"

and woman as between men or women. Gertrude Atherton unmaske it as simply flirtation under another name, or playing with fire. "The man is quite sure to fire up." Safety lies in having a reasonable number of friends whose friend- ship is as impersonal as that of brother and sister. The Hon. Stuart Erskine declares all serious friendship between the sexes to be "mistaken, if not impossible, unless it takes place on a footing, of love." Lady Helen Craven avows her private belief and experience Captain Dickens will be despatched as above to be that "there can be no sentiment between on TUESDAY, the 29th May.

For Freight, apply to a man and a woman but love or indifference." The man is gen- Mrs. C. H. Fox conceives it possible, but only by the will of the woman.

rally willing and ready to cross the border.

of platonics,

line

William Garland, in the Westminster Re- view, finds the rarity of friendship between the sexes to be due, firstly, to the empty-minded. ness of so many women, and, secondly, to their mortal dread of Mrs. Grundy. Only let wa men be bold enough to defy her, and wise enough choose only men of high character for their friends, and the difficulties will be

surmounted,

SELECTED MARRIAGES.

THE STATE AS MATCH-MAKER..

bc

And yet, if they never hit a man, this handful of sailors have been the saving of Ladysmith You don't know, till-you have tried it, what worm you feck when the enemy is plugging shell into you and you can't possibly plug back, Even though they spared their shell it made all the world of difference to know that the sailors could reach the big guns if they over became unbearable. It makes all the difference to the Boers, too, I suspect; for as soon as Lady Lynne or Bloody Mary gets, on to them they shut up in a round or two. To have the very men among you makes the difference between our boxes on the trucks and thought we daunts him, or is beyond his ability to elucidato. will no doubt, give rise to a deal of controversy, under bonds, or in prison to answer for à

rain water and brine,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. - Hongkong, 19th April, 1900.

firb EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. (Calling at PORT DARWIN, and QUEENE- LAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, New Zealand, TASMANIA, &c.) HE Steamship

THE

"AIRLIE,"

Captain St. John George, wit be despatched as- above on THURSDAY, the 31st instant, at.

4 P.M.

This well-known Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham her, which ensures the supply, of Fresh Provi slona, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage

This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.

A Stewardess, and a duly-qualified Surgeon are carried.

www

N.D.-Return Tickets issued by this Com- pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for return by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGA

ON COMPANY and vice versa. For Freight or Passage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON" & Cap

Agents. Hongkong, 9th May, 1900, FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL::

Nearly four miles inland from Jamestown

The desirability of improving the race by is an isolated farmhouse, on an elevated carefully selected marriages has long been plateau about ; ft. above the sea. This is talked about, and now the State of Colorado is Longwood; where Napolean lived from 1815 going to set about the task. A Bill has been until he died there in 1821. The house is introduced into the Legislature permitting only long, low, whitewashed, fairly trim build healthy, well-developed and moral people to ing, with extensive outhouses, some rather marry. Among its provisions are that the fine old trees, and a good bit of decent farm man must be at least twenty-five and the land.. It is not known whether Cronje will woman twenty-two; both must be free from be housed at this historic spot, and it would consumption, epilepsy, asthma, or any blood seem inadvisable to distort the associations of disease, insanity, organic or hereditary,

must not the place by the mere suggestion of invidious and drunkenness they comparisons. Still, there are not many other more closely related than fourth cousins, and Not only in business but in other affairs of residences in the island which could offer no certificate shall be granted for marriage to life, the Korean gentleman is a master of inacsimilar conveniences.

any who shall have a notorious reputation, creathing under the sun, and no subject ever by the advent of Mr. Cronje and his belongings application for a marriage license be on trial, THE Steamship curacy. He pretends to be absolutely certain of The historical precedent which is involved moral depravity, or who shall at the time of

The slightest clue gives him a key to the whole and there will not be wanting those who will felony." To carry out this law a country board merely let him see the smoke from the funnel, look upon it as an aspersion upon the great of medical examiners is to be formed, one of will be despatched for the above Port op

whose members must be a woman; and up or about SUNDAY, the roth June. and he will explain to you the why and where Napoleon. fore of a steam engine. He will tell you what a However this may be, the incursion into the certificate to marry can be granted until the For Freight, apply to comet's tail is composed of, or what color the island of a horde of, Boer farmers, numbering man and woman have been examined by this dog is that causes the eclipse of the moon. nearly as many as the normal population of board. Any attempt to deceive on any of these. He compares the minor details of his life about place will create an extraordinary state of pointe la penalised by a legal clattee:-

"DRUMMOND,"

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED Agents Hongkong, 5th May, 1999.

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Shipping. STEAMERS.

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY.

- STEAM FOR.

SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KARACHI, FIUME AND TRIESTE.

(Taking Cargo at theigh Rates to PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, BLACK SEA, LEVANT and ADRIATIC Ports).

HE Company's Steamship,

THE C

SILESIA,"

Captain G. Verona, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, P.M.

Silk and Valuables are transhipped on arrival at Bombay into an accelerated liner.

For informatioit as to Passage and Freight, apply to

SANDER, WIELER & Co.,

Agents.

1590b

Hongkong, & May, fore INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA

THE Company's Steamship

"CHELYDRAS

Captain Davies, will be despate bed as above on THURSDAY, the 17th instant, at Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE. MATHESON & Cop

General Managers,

Hongkong. Toth May, 1995

foosb

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. FOR LONDON VE SUEZ CANAL

THE Company's Steam-in

AGAMEMNON,"

Captain Nish, will be despatched

Du TUESDAY, the tail'fone.

on

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

Hongkong, gel May, 19 es

Consignees.

[570b

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSHINEES..

FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

THE "

HE, Steamship

"GISELA

having arrived. Consignees of fargore hereby informed that their God can wing lander at their risk into the shanset the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This vessel brings Cares,

From Venice. Na

transhipped at T

Optional Cargoland

Marsimilians

lbene unless

notice to the contrare be art on pumeshately,

No Claims will be based after the Goods have left the Godov ns, and all clans must be sent in to the Offre al flie !adersigned bafore Noon on the th lost lay, or they will not be recogniset,